Educating Machines: A New History of Intelligence

 What are the social and economic consequences of the development of machine intelligence and how will our lives change in the coming decades? To answer these questions, Sergei Shumsky, a well-known Russian expert in the field of artificial intelligence, uses a historical approach, tracing the change of technological eras right up to the present day.

Emergence of machine intelligence marks the beginning of the transition to a new way of life, a new digital economy. However, this revolution, like any other, comes with many risks - from the loss of social stability in individual countries and worldwide to existential challenges associated with the loss of control over one's own destiny by individuals and humanity as a whole. Therefore, it is very important that the artificial mind should be as close as possible to the human mind in terms of social instincts and humanistic values, and therefore, the author insists, a reliable practical programme for the formation of a human-like artificial psyche and the development of a new science of machine education is needed.